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USC GOULD’S TRADITION OF CLERKSHIPS We have a long-standing tradition of supporting our students’ interest in clerkships.

The program is led by two faculty members who chair the clerkship committee – professors Sam Erman and Abby Wood, both of whom have clerked.

USC Gould graduates have clerked extensively with judges across all levels of the judiciary.

Here is a list of judges our students have clerked for: UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Chief Justice William Rehnquist Chief Justice Earl Warren Justice Thomas C. Clark Justice William O. Douglas Justice Byron White

FIRST CIRCUIT

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Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island

United States District Court

FIRST CIRCUIT Hon. Juan Torruella

MARYLAND Hon. John R. Hargrove, Sr.

State Court

FIFTH CIRCUIT

MASSACHUSETTS Hon. Roderick L. Ireland

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ARIZONA Hon. Robert Broomfield Hon. Raner Collins

EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas

Western Region Superior Court

United States District Courts

ILLINOIS Hon. Marvin Aspen

Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota EIGHTH CIRCUIT Hon. Duane Benton Hon. Roger L. Wollman

U.S. Court of Appeals

United States District Court

United States District Court

State Court MINNESOTA Hon. Rosalie Wahl

NEW YORK Hon. Shirley Wohl Kram

TEXAS Hon. Micaela Alvarez Hon. Kenneth M. Hoyt Hon. Lynn Hughes Hon. George P. Kazen Hon. Philip R. Martinez Hon. Diana Saldaña Hon. Richard Schell Hon. Ewing Werlein, Jr.

U.S. Court of International Trade

U.S. Bankruptcy Court

NEW YORK Hon. Jane A. Restani Hon. Donald Pogue

TEXAS Hon. Marvin Isgur

U.S. Bankruptcy Court

SIXTH CIRCUIT

NEW YORK Hon. Tina L. Brozman

Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee

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Connecticut, New York, Vermont

U.S. Court of Appeals SECOND CIRCUIT Hon. Dennis Jacobs

United States District Courts CONNECTICUT Hon. Alan H. Nevas

THIRD CIRCUIT

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Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

United States Court of Appeals THIRD CIRCUIT Hon. Ruggero Aldisert Hon. Theodore A. McKee

United States District Court NEW JERSEY Hon. Anne E. Thompson PENNSYLVANIA Hon. Thomas N. O’Neill, Jr. Hon. Cynthia M. Rufe Hon. Donald W. VanArtsdalen

U.S. Court of Appeals SIXTH CIRCUIT Hon. Danny J. Boggs Hon. Damon J. Keith

United States District Courts MICHIGAN Hon. Richard A. Enslen OHIO Hon. James Carr Hon. John David Holschuh TENNESSEE Hon. Jon Phipps McCalla

U.S. Magistrate Judges TENNESSEE Hon. Tu M. Pham

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U.S. Court of Appeals

FIFTH CIRCUIT Hon. Harold R. DeMoss, Jr. Hon. John Minor Wisdom Hon. Priscilla Owen Hon. Stephen A. Higginson

SECOND CIRCUIT

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U.S. Court of Appeals

Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia

U.S. Court of Appeals

United States District Court

Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin

DELAWARE COURT OF CHANCERY Chancellor William B. Chandler, III Vice Chancellor John W. Noble Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons, Jr.

FOURTH CIRCUIT

SEVENTH CIRCUIT Hon. John D. Tinder

Hon. Mary M. Schroeder Hon. Barry Silverman Hon. Milan Smith, Jr. Hon. A. Wallace Tashima Hon. David R. Thompson Hon. J. Clifford Wallace Hon. Kim McLane Wardlaw Hon. Paul Watford Hon. Charles Wiggins

SEVENTH CIRCUIT

State Courts

MISSOURI Hon. Scott O. Wright Hon. Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.

NINTH CIRCUIT Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Mariana Islands, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington

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U.S. Court of Appeals NINTH CIRCUIT Hon. Arthur L. Alarcon Hon. Carlos Bea Hon. Robert Boochever Hon. Melvin Brunetti Hon. Richard H. Chambers Hon. Herbert Y. Choy Hon. Walter R. Ely, Jr. Hon. Jerome Farris Hon. Warren J. Ferguson Hon. Ferdinand F. Fernandez Hon. Raymond C. Fisher Hon. Alfred T. Goodwin Hon. Ronald M. Gould Hon. Cynthia Holcomb Hall Hon. Procter R. Hug, Jr. Hon. Sandra Segal Ikuta Hon. Alex Kozinski Hon. Dorothy Wright Nelson Hon. Thomas G. Nelson Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr. Hon. Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain Hon. Richard A. Paez Hon. Harry Pregerson Hon. Johnnie Rawlinson Hon. Stephen Reinhardt

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CALIFORNIA Hon. Percy Anderson Hon. Rudi M. Brewster Hon. William Matthew Byrne, Jr. Hon. Cormac J. Carney Hon. Charles H. Carr Hon. E. Avery Crary Hon. Audrey B. Collins Hon. John G. Davies Hon. Gary Allen Feess Hon. Dale S. Fischer Hon. Richard A. Gadbois, Jr. Hon. Irma E. Gonzalez Hon. William P. Gray Hon. Andrew Guilford Hon. Philip S. Gutierrez Hon. Peirson M. Hall Hon. Irving Hill Hon. Terry J. Hatter, Jr. Hon. A. Andrew Hauk Hon. Marilyn L. Huff Hon. Harry L. Hupp Hon. James M. Ideman Hon. J. Lawrence Irving Hon. Judith N. Keep Hon. William D. Keller Hon. Robert J. Kelleher Hon. David V. Kenyon Hon. George King Hon. John A. Kronstadt Hon. J. Spencer Letts Hon. Ronald S. W. Lew Hon. Lawrence Lydick Hon. Howard Matz Hon. S. James Otero Hon. Mariana Pfaelzer Hon. Virginia A. Phillips Hon. Edward Rafeedie Hon. William J. Rea Hon. Manuel L. Real Hon. John S. Rhoades Hon. Ernest Robles Hon. Janis Sammartino Hon. James V. Selna Hon. Christina Snyder Hon. Alicemarie H. Stotler Hon. Gary Taylor Hon. Gordon Thompson, Jr. Hon. Dickran M. Tevrizian, Jr. Hon. Howard B. Turrentine Hon. Oliver W. Wanger Hon. David W. Williams Hon. Stephen V. Wilson Hon. George H.Wu Death Penalty Habeas Clerk HAWAII Hon. David A. Ezra Hon. Alan Kay

USC GOULD’S TRADITION OF CLERKSHIPS NEVADA Hon. Roger L. Hunt Hon. James Mahan Hon. Howard D. McKibben Hon. Philip M. Pro Hon. Edward C. Reed OREGON Hon. Ancer L. Haggerty Hon. Michael Wise Mosman WASHINGTON Hon. John Coughenour Hon. William F. Nielsen

State Courts ALASKA Hon. Walter L. Carpeneti ARIZONA Hon. Ruth V. McGregor Hon. Scott Bales Hon. Daniel A. Barker Hon. Rudolph J. Gerber CALIFORNIA Hon. Paul Boland Hon. Haley Fromholz Hon. Ann I. Jones Hon. Peter J. Meeka Hon. Dan T. Oki Hon. Donald R. Wright Hon. John Zebrowski

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts CALIFORNIA Hon. Calvin K. Ashland Hon. Catherine E. Bauer Hon. Samuel L. Bufford

Hon. Thomas B. Donovan Hon. Arthur M. Greenwald Hon. James R. Grube Hon. Meredith Jury Hon. Victoria Kaufman Hon. Kathleen T. Lax Hon. Kathleen P. March Hon. Ernest Robles Hon. John E. Ryan Hon. Erithe A. Smith Hon. Maureen Tighe Hon. Mark Wallace Hon. Scott H. Yun NEVADA Hon. Cam Ferenbach

U.S. Magistrate Judges CALIFORNIA Hon. Volney V. Brown Hon. Jacqueline Chooljian Hon. Steve Kim Hon. Jennifer T. Lum Hon. Jean Rosenbluth Hon. Carolyn Turchin Hon. Jeffrey W. Johnson Hon. Patrick J. Walsh Hon. Carla M. Woehrle NEVADA Hon. Lawrence R. Leavitt Hon. Robert A. McQuaid, Jr.

Superior Court, Law & Motion Department HAWAII Hon. Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. Hon. Robert Klein Hon. Frank D. Padgett

UTAH Hon. Matthew Durrant

NEVADA Hon. Scott Jordan Hon. Charles Springer Hon. Valorie J. Vega

ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

WASHINGTON Hon. H. Joseph Coleman Hon. James M. Johnson

TENTH CIRCUIT Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming

U.S. Court of Appeals TENTH CIRCUIT Hon. Robert H. Henry Hon. John C. Porfilio Hon. Oliver Seth Hon. Monroe McKay

United States District Courts

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Alabama, Florida, Georgia

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U.S. Court of Appeals ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Hon. Robert Vance

United States District Courts FLORIDA Hon. Henry Lee Adams, Jr. Hon. William P. Dimitrouleas Hon. K. Michael Moore Hon. Kenneth L. Ryskamp Hon. Thomas B. Smith GEORGIA Hon. Timothy Batten

COLORADO Hon. Sherman Finesilver

SPECIALTY COURTS LOCATED IN D.C.

NEW MEXICO Hon. James O. Browning

U.S. Court of Claims

UTAH Hon. Tena Campbell

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

WYOMING Hon. Charles A. Brimmer

State Courts COLORADO Hon. Warren O. Martin OKLAHOMA Hon. Steven W. Taylor

Hon. Christine Odell Cook Miller

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

INTERNATIONAL COURTS High Court of American Samoa Justice F. Michael Kruse

Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Law School-Hosted Annual Clerkship Events n

1L Clerkship Reception – creates an opportunity for all first-year students to learn about the benefits of clerkships. Students engage with Gould alumni who have clerked and are currently working at various area law firms. Hosted by the Board of Councilors Clerkship Committee and sponsored by law firms.

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Alumni Clerk Panel “Clerkships: The Best Job You Will Ever Have” – provides an opportunity for those considering clerking to speak more directly with alumni and ask questions.

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Dean-Hosted Session – clerkship applicants meet with the dean in a more intimate and informal setting over lunch.

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Turrentine Reception – recognizes students who have secured clerkships. Past keynote speakers include the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable James Selna of the Central District.

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Clerkship Bootcamp – prepares graduating students for their fall clerkships.

Instruction provided by USC faculty, members of the Federal Bench, and former USC law clerks.

Career Services Office Support The Career Services Office (CSO) assists students interested in applying for clerkships. Students can obtain the most current information about courts to which they are applying; CSO staff connects students with prior clerks, guide applicants through the process and prepare candidates for their interviews.

Board of Councilors and Alumni Support The Board of Councilors at the USC Gould School of Law is comprised of legal and business professionals appointed by the dean.

They advise on important strategic law school initiatives. These notably include the Federal Judicial Clerkship program, which encourages and supports students interested in serving as federal clerks. In 2005, they formed the Board of Councilors Clerkship Committee, which educates students about the importance and value of clerking, and assists students pursuing clerkships.